Tags: Crime, Global crime, Cyber-crime, International trade, Transnational crime, Law enforcement, Policing services

The tools and technologies of globalisation shaping today’s companies and criminal groups include pervasive and relatively cheap international travel, instant and highly reliable international communications by proliferating modes, the emergence of instant electronic funds transfers, greatly enhanced international cargo flows, and concomitant to the digitalisation of funds transfer, the massive flow of so-called ‘fast money’ around the world. This is a world in which decision making processes are now no longer constrained by the speed of communications. A few key people located anywhere in the world can, through a series of strategic alliances, exercise control over substantial financial empires. Groups that hitherto would never have dealt with each other can now come together in a series of fluid alliances of convenience.

Crime and the Future.pdf